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A tossed ship making to safe harbour, or, A word in season to a…A tossed ship making to safe harbor, or, A word in season to a…
A tossed ship making to safe harbour, or, A word in season to a sinking kingdom wherein Englands case and cure, her burdens and comforts, her pressures and duties are opened and applied : in diverse sermons preached upon the public days of humiliation, out of that prophetical history, Matth. 14, 22 to 28 / by Samuel Bolton ...A tossed ship making to safe harbor, or, A word in season to a sinking kingdome wherein Englands case and cure, her burthens and comforts, her pressures and duties are opened and applyed : in diverse sermons preached upon the publick dayes of humiliation, out of that propheticall history, Matth. 14, 22 to 28 / by Samuel Bolton ...
London: printed by L.N. for Philemon Stephens, 1644
Sermon 1: A Word in Season, to a sinking Kingdom.Sermon 1: A Word in Season, to a sinking Kingdome.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
God often makes us fatherless in respect of creature reliefs, that we might be fatherless in respect of creature reliance. God blasts that means whereon we do rely, that he might be the alone reliance of his people; he makes us nothing, that we might be all in him, and strengthen our selves in God.
God often makes us fatherlesse in respect of creature reliefes, that we might be fatherlesse in respect of creature reliance. God blasts that meanes whereon we doe relye, that he might be the alone relyance of his people; he makes us nothing, that we might be all in him, and strengthen our selves in God.
2 The argument of Christs prayer may be guessed at, if you look forward upon what follows.
2 The argument of Christs prayer may be ghessed at, if you look forward upon what followes.
The Disciples were sent to sea, Christ foresees the storm, he would not hinder it, abut suffers it for the exercise of their graces. Yet he gets into a Mountain to pray, and no doubt for them, that in this exercise of their faith, their faith might not fail them. As he prayed for Peter, when Satan desired to winnow him, that his faith might not fail him: if not, Satan had not only winnowed him like wheat, but blown him away like chaff. So Christ doth here pray for his Disciples, that in this great exercise, in this great storm, their faith might not fail them.
The Disciples were sent to sea, Christ foresees the storme, he would not hinder it, a